To Japanese people who are looking at this page

From the producer:

I wish that Japanese people, we, were more serious about our history.
If so, we could have really faced our past. We have never realized:
it was the event that should have been carefully recorded and that
the peoples of the next generation have to learn.

Blaming our counter-part by emphasizing that we were victims of the
bombing and asking for an apology to satisfy ourselves are senseless
from the history perspectives. The issue is: "What can we learn from
our past?"

History is a class room to learn our past. What we learn are not
just names, words nor numbers in textbooks; they were real lives.
We need to share our knowledge of the past with others.

After reading the recent report by Newsweek on "Hiroshima: August 6, 1945"
(July 24, 1995 issue), I realized how our counter-part people seriously
confront their past and are serious to learn what it was and what it
means. Have we reviewed our past to that extent?

Have we seriously examined what Nanjing Massacre was or what Pearl
Harbor was? After starting this service, I have received two e-mails
from the persons who looked at this WWW museum and who wrote about
Pearl Harbor; they are an American and a Japanese.

It should be noted that the Nanjing Massacre WWW home page is linked
to this WWW museum in the related work section. We have to undestand
and to learn what World War II was and what we did.

Mitsuru Ohba

Arguments

Pearl Harbor

visited you page today, well done, very professional.
I have mixed feelings, the japanese killed two members of my
family that were aboard the arizona when they bombed pearl.
whenever the japanese apologize for their atrocities then I'll
feel better.

Nanjing Massacre

Dear administrators,
I'm disappointed by your description of the event. Not one word about why
the bomb was dropped. Surprisingly I don't even recall seeing the words
"World War II" on the museum page. Did the bomb fall down from the sky and
explode for no reason?

In the main page, you've stated:

"Rather we want you to work with us to ensure that all of us can live in a
safe world."

Well... My suggestion on the issue is--NEVER START A WAR!

The Japanese government has been repeatedly ignoring the main part of
history, even denying the fact that Japan did launch a war, did commit war
crimes, and did surrender the war. While remembrance of the atomic attacks
keep rendering Japan as a victim of the war, not a word about even a war,
not to mention any apologies about the war.

The A-Bomb Museum page is a similar effort--describing the davastation in
Japan, calling for peace, BUT IGNORING WHO LAUNCHED THE WAR!

I strongly suggest you compare the number of deaths in the atomic blasts
with the number of people died under the Japanese guns, bombs, and swords.

One last thing: there is another home page about the atomic bomb in
Nagasaki. I'm quoting one of the response in the discussion forum. This line
pretty much expresses what I feel about your A-Bomb Museum home page: